HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ratify
/ˈɹætəˌfaɪ/
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What does ratify mean?
verb
- To give formal consent to; make officially valid, to sign off on.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹætəˌfaɪ/
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Then to the Latian king he sends, to cease The rage of arms, and ratify the peace.
Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
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If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick.
Then charging him with and inveighing bitterly against the outrages he had committed, he asked again whether he was willing or no to ratify the treaty of Archelaus?
But Rodolph, as jealous as he had hitherto been careless of his sovereign authority, refused to ratify this treaty, which he regarded as a criminal encroachment on his sovereign rights.